Source: ANN

The Japanese government issued a formal statement of requests to the government of the United States on regulatory reform and market competition policy on October 18, and included a request for the United States to help stop the unauthorized reproduction and distribution of Japanese animation online. Specifically, the formal statement mentions the spread of Japanese animation and other materials on video-sharing sites and peer-to-peer file-sharing networks.

A formal statement eh?…hmm… This is first time I ever heard of such a statement that involves 2 countries. I guess file sharing is reaching its doom pretty soon and my theory of having big sized hdd recorders and VCRs is pretty much true. Time to dump them! and time to save up for R2 releases !

Well, I would leave that up to them to put up requests to streaming bodies like Youtube to take down the videos. Just look at the amount, it is overwhelming. (lol) I would wait and see how this is gonna turn out. What are you guys’ opinions ?